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Young Adults Participate in F5 Challenge

Young Adults Participate in F5 Challenge

June 2019

Finding interesting activities for young adults can be a difficult task. The 18- to 35-year-old age range includes high school graduates, college students, working adults, newlyweds, and even young families. With such a broad group of people, the young adult ministries of the Gulf States Conference has attempted to meet … »Read more

Spring Women’s Retreat bonds mothers, daughters

Spring Women’s Retreat bonds mothers, daughters

June 2019

The mother/daughter relationship is very important. Colleen Oakley on webMD.com says the mother-daughter relationship “determines a girl’s future relationship skills and self-esteem,”Oakley, 2014. The women’s ministries team understands this, and began inviting teens to their retreats in 2006. This year there were almost 70 teens, ages 10 to 18, in … »Read more

Service Lights the World

Service Lights the World

June 2019

Great things are accomplished when individuals give of their time and energy for a cause in which they believe. In 1892, George and Ada Colcord accepted the call to start a school in southeast Tennessee. With no existing structure to build on or outside financial support, the couple started Graysville … »Read more

GAAA Students Participate in Mock Trial

GAAA Students Participate in Mock Trial

June 2019

Twenty-four Greater Atlanta Adventist Academy (GAAA) students appeared in an Atlanta, Georgia, courtroom on Thursday, April 11, 2019 — not as juvenile delinquents or menaces to society, but as bold bailiffs, passionate plaintiffs, determined defendants, magisterial members of the jury, and amazing attorneys. Fern Clarke, Ph.D., criminology coach, and Sylvan … »Read more

Oakwood University Aeolians Perform at Their First National American Chorale Directors Association Event

Oakwood University Aeolians Perform at Their First National American Chorale Directors Association Event

June 2019

Ladies and gentlemen, making their first National American Chorale Directors Association (ACDA) appearance: The Aeolians of Oakwood University!” I took a big breath and walked out to center stage. We were received with such warmth. We acknowledged the audience, and then I turned to face the choir and mouthed to … »Read more

Sometimes You Just Have to Make Time

Sometimes You Just Have to Make Time

May 2019

Every time Audree Santana went through the intersection of Route 326 and I-75 in Ocala, Florida, she encountered homeless people who lived under the bridge. Surprisingly, she even found homeless people in her classroom. In a recent Point in Time count (a count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons on … »Read more

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